Europism: Collectivism’s Failure and the Resentment of America (Part 2)

The European Union is an embryonic supranational political entity.  What does this mean?
The first thing to notice about the term supranationalism is that it involves the concept of nationalism.  In other words, it is rooted in collectivism.  Unlike internationalism, however, supranationalism does not hold that the solution to the friction between national collectives is a [...]

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Europism: Collectivism’s Failure and the Resentment of America (Part 1)

My students and I recently completed the History of Europe in the A First History for AdultsTM program.  In that course, we traced the story of Europe from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the formation of the European Union. 
It isn’t a pretty picture.
The ending, which I refer to as the “European Subordinacy” (mostly to America) [...]

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No Right to Flirt in Saudi Arabia

For once, it’s the men who are bearing the brunt of Saudi sex police activities.
Yesterday, some 57 men were apparently arrested for “flirting” outside a mall in Mecca, according to an Associated Press report in the International Herald and Tribune.
What strikes me about this story, in the light of recent bad press for Saudi Arabia, [...]

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History At Our House Update

The HistoryAtOurHouse blog, home to news about the world’s premier homeschooling history curriculum for children, features the following recent articles:
 Give Me Liberty, or You’ll Get Death!  — an analysis of the great painting of Patrick Henry before the House of Burgesses  arguing against the Stamp Act.
When History Beats Hannah Montana — a heartening story about how [...]

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The Islamist Entanglement Now Available as Individual Lectures!

My latest course, The Islamist Entanglement, starts tomorrow, and I couldn’t be more excited.  It will be hands-down my best course ever!
So if you’ve heard about Powell History’s unique content and method, and clients’ rave reviews (and here too!), don’t you owe it to yourself to try one of my lectures?!
The great thing about this offering is [...]

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Yara’s Valentine’s Consolation Kiboshed

If Yara’s hubby wants to make her feel better about her strip-searching ordeal at the hands of the Saudi Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, he’ll have to go with chocolates, because roses are out!
The same commission that arrested Yara for sitting alone with a man in a Starbucks now wants to discourage men and women from [...]

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Yara’s Saudi Starbucks Delusion

In this FOXNEWS story, American businesswoman Yara (who doesn’t want her last name revealed because she of “safety concerns”–i.e. she fears the Saudi government), confesses to having bragged about womens’ freedom to none other than Neil Bush–one of the president’s brothers.
The article quotes her as saying, “I was boasting about Riyadh, telling him it doesn’t [...]

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More on the Saudi Starbucks Sex Police Scandal

I turns out the woman who was arrested by the Saudi police for sitting with a man in a Starbucks is American!  Her “great sin” was to sit with a male business partner in a booth at Starbucks in order to enjoy the convenience of wireless Internet.
Here’s more on the story from the TimesOnline.
If this [...]

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Shame on Starbucks for Sanctioning Saudi Oppression!

What is more normal in America that having a business meeting at a Starbucks?
At the next table, a gaggle of stroller moms will be chatting away after a walk-run.
At the table beyond a group of students will be studying for a college exam.
And next to them a young couple will meet for the first time, after [...]

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Kemalism and the Future of the Middle East

One look into those lively eyes should convince you that this is no typical Middle Eastern leader.  This is Mustafa Kemal “Ataturk”–father of the Turks, the founder of the modern Turkish republic, whose remarkable legacy, Kemalism, is the only modern secular national ideology holding its own in the Middle East. 
In a heartening display of Turkish secularism that [...]

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